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Paper sole option for patients opting out of CRS

Patients who wish to opt out of having their information recorded on the NHS Care Records Service will only be
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Councils lag behind on telecare plans

 A minority of councils in England are starting to put plans in place for telecare services but most have made
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New mothers in Wales first to have access to EHRs

New mothers are to be among the first in Wales to receive access to their own electronic health records constructed
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NPfIT support procurement enters final stretch

NHS Connecting for Health has announced that the three remaining bidders for the First Line Service Support (FLSS) contract are
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Ofcom investigation dents Patientline results

Patientline, the supplier of bedside phones and entertainment for patients, has reported a 39% increase in pre-tax losses, due partly
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Arresting ideas

Clinicians who work in police custody in four counties in south-east England are being supported by a new software suite,
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Patient records to get quality checks

GP practices are to be paid to bring patient records up to national data accreditation standards as part of the
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Local trust data overwritten by Choose and Book

E-Health Insider has learned that some hospitals linked to the national Choose and Book appointment booking system are having some
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Common exception reporting standards called for

Exception reporting rates for the Quality and Outcomes Framework need to be subject to uniform standards to ensure as many
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London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS

Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient
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